Tweak #3 – Change the form icon.
The idea is to replace the embedded purple icon in VS2010’s devenv.exe to the VS2008 one. There are various ways, but here is what I did:
– Use IconChanger from Shellabs here. Trial version should suffice.
– Locate VS2010 devenv.exe file. By default it is in
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe”.
– Replace its embedded icon with VS2008 one. By default it is in
“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe”.

IconChanger screenshot from Shellabs

This third step makes that gloomy VS2010 ribbon goes away from your top-left screen, replaced with the sunny VS2008 ribbon.